Word Meanings - DORSOVENTRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.

Related words: (words related to DORSOVENTRAL)

• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• DORSOVENTRAL
  From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• ANIMALISH
  Like an animal.
• ANIMALISM
  The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.
• VENTRAL
  Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to Ant: dorsal. Of or pertaining to that surface
• ANIMALCULUM
  An animalcule. Note: Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism.
• DORSAL
  Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
• DORSALE
  See N
• ANIMALIZE
  1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The
• DORSIVENTRAL
  Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
• BELL ANIMALCULE
  An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.
• BIVENTRAL
  Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
• VEGETO-ANIMAL
  Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.